UNIT THEME: Heroism in literature Main readings: The OdysseyParts 1 & 2 translated by Robert Fitzgerald
"Sir Gawain and The Green Knight"
Selections from Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (or parts from the movie)
Additional book (for honors only): Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian
Mini research project on Greek Mythology or historical heroes of our culture Writing activities: Hero in today's world, project paper, and hero quote responses
UNIT THEME: The Universal Meanings in William Shakespeare's plays Main readings: Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest
Reading groups and small group discussions Project: Wikispace project page on character from one of the readings Writing activities: compare theme with current event.
UNIT THEME: Good and Innocence vs. Evil and Ignorance Main reading:To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Selected poems from Witness by Karen Hesse. (A series of poems from various people in a small Vermont town during the early 1920's when the KKK is in town.)
Enrichment reading: Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy (White family stands up to the Ku Klux Klan in a southern Florida town in the 1950s), Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane (Prejudice in South Africa during the height of apartheid laws), The Color of Water by James McBride (A black man's tribute to his white Jewish mother during the US Civil Rights movement). Project: Weekly newspaper with small group
Activity possibility: view movie Remember the Titans Writing activities: Research paper on countries with civil rights problems of the past or present (ex. South Africa, US, Iran, Afghanistan, etc.)
Main readings: The Odyssey Parts 1 & 2 translated by Robert Fitzgerald
"Sir Gawain and The Green Knight"
Selections from Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (or parts from the movie)
Additional book (for honors only): Gospel According to Larry by Janet Tashjian
Mini research project on Greek Mythology or historical heroes of our culture
Writing activities: Hero in today's world, project paper, and hero quote responses
UNIT THEME: The Universal Meanings in William Shakespeare's plays
Main readings: Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest
Reading groups and small group discussions
Project: Wikispace project page on character from one of the readings
Writing activities: compare theme with current event.
UNIT THEME: Good and Innocence vs. Evil and Ignorance
Main reading: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Selected poems from Witness by Karen Hesse. (A series of poems from various people in a small Vermont town during the early 1920's when the KKK is in town.)
Enrichment reading: Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy (White family stands up to the Ku Klux Klan in a southern Florida town in the 1950s), Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane (Prejudice in South Africa during the height of apartheid laws), The Color of Water by James McBride (A black man's tribute to his white Jewish mother during the US Civil Rights movement).
Project: Weekly newspaper with small group
Activity possibility: view movie Remember the Titans
Writing activities: Research paper on countries with civil rights problems of the past or present (ex. South Africa, US, Iran, Afghanistan, etc.)